The following excerpt is from Armster v. U.S. Dist. Court for the Cent. Dist. of California, 792 F.2d 1423 (9th Cir. 1986):
The right of jury trial in civil cases at common law is a basic and fundamental feature of our system of federal jurisprudence which is protected by the Seventh Amendment. A right so fundamental and sacred to the citizen ... should be jealously guarded by the courts.
Jacob v. New York City, 315 U.S. 752, 752-53, 62 S.Ct. 854, 854, 86 L.Ed. 1166 (1942).
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